Filmmakers

Nathaniel Kahn is an award-winning filmmaker. His documentary My Architect, about his father, Louis I. Kahn, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 as well as being nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards and an Emmy. Kahn also won the 2004 Directors Guild of America award for outstanding direction of a documentary. His short films include the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated Two Hands (2006), about the internationally celebrated pianist Leon Fleisher. Kahn has also made several films on science including Telescope (2015) and Dark Side of the Sun (2016) for Discovery. He is currently at work on a feature-length documentary on the Webb Space Telescope as well as a new screenplay, which he will direct.

Jennifer Blei Stockman is a principal in Hot & Sunny Productions, formed to provide content about artists and the art world for film and television. She worked as an executive for over 30 years in the business world while avidly collecting contemporary art. She has been President of the Guggenheim since 2005, with museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice and a project in Abu Dhabi. She has also served on museum committees at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Aspen Art Museum and founded the Bruce Museum Council. Blei Stockman is a producer of Love, Cecil, a documentary by Lisa Immordino Vreeland that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival.

Debi Wisch is a principal in Hot & Sunny Productions, formed to provide content about artists and the art world for film and television. She has more than 25 years of experience in marketing and public relations and has consulted for international luxury brands, cultural institutions, art galleries and museums. She currently serves on the Director’s Advisory Board at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center and Anderson Collection, the Guggenheim Museum’s International Director’s Council, Hunter College’s Art Advisory Board and served on the executive committee of the Jewish Museum. She is also an active board member of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and serves on the board of governors of the American Jewish Committee. Wisch is one of the producers of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s documentary Love, Cecil.

Carla Solomon is a documentary film producer and one of the founding principals of Anthos Media LLC. Her producing credits include Particle Fever, about scientists searching for the mysteries of the universe; The New Public, which takes on America’s educational opportunity crisis as experienced by one inner city public school; and Colliding Dreams (executive producer), about the dream of Zionism and its role in today’s Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Currently, Solomon is participating in Creative Chaos’ Post-Truth (in production), about the birth of the “fake news” phenomenon, and developing a film about the college mental health crisis. A clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst by training, Solomon is on the board of trustees of the NYU Langone Medical Center and founding chair of KiDS of NYU Langone Medical Center. She is also on the board of directors of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Lisa Remington is a documentary producer fortunate to have worked with a number of talented directors. She produced Jessica Yu’s short ForEveryone.net for the Ford Foundation, Davis Guggenheim’s short for the Obama campaign, The Road We’ve Traveled, and Rory Kennedy’s portrait of her mother, Ethel, for HBO. She co-produced Participant Media’s film Countdown To Zero, directed by Lucy Walker, which premiered at Cannes, and collaborated with Robert Greenwald on Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers and the Freedom Files, a 9-part series for PBS. Remington recently produced Raising Ryland, a digital short for CNN.com and co-produced Cesar’s Last Fast, which premiered at Sundance.

Kayla Malahiazar is a documentary filmmaker based in New York City. She served as the associate producer on the Emmy-nominated documentary Kingdom of Shadows, which examines the human cost of the US-Mexico drug war. Previously, she served as production coordinator on the two-part bilingual series for PBS about Latino high school students, The Graduates/Los Graduados, and was the outreach coordinator for the Emmy-nominated documentary Reportero. Malahiazar graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2012 with a BA in Liberal Arts and a focus on international politics.

Sabine Krayenbühl is an award-winning editor with over 20 theatrical documentaries and narrative features to her credit, many of which have premiered at prestigious festivals around the world. Her work includes the Oscar and Independent Spirit Award nominated My Architect (2003) for which she received an ACE Eddie Award nomination. Other credits include Mad Hot Ballroom, The Bridge, Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies, produced by Martin Scorsese, Salinger, on which she consulted, and Kiss the Water, co-produced by BBC Films. Most recently, she finished her directorial debut Letters from Baghdad, which has been released theatrically in the US and UK to great success. She is an alumni of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a long-term member of New York Women in Film and Television.

While Phillip Schopper is primarily known for his Emmy-nominated HBO films—Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words, San Francisco 2.0, Teddy: In His Own Words, Gloria: In Her Own Words, and 911: Portraits of Resilience—he has also directed and edited for HBO All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State, as well as two American Masters for PBS: Nichols and May: Take Two and The Lives of Lillian Hellman. He began his feature film career editing the classic music film Heartworn Highways and was supervising editor on the recently released follow-up Heartworn Highways Revisited.

Brad Fuller began his career as associate editor on Errol Morris’ first film, Gates of Heaven. They went on to work on six more films together, including A Brief History in Time (editor), Vernon, Florida (editor), The Thin Blue Line (associate producer/sound), Fog of War (post production supervisor) and Standard Operating Procedure (co-editor). Fuller’s other editing credits include Gary Oldman’s BAFTA Award-winning Nil by Mouth, Neil Burger’s Interview with the Assassin, the Oscar-nominated documentary short Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story, Every Little Step, for which he was shortlisted for the 2010 Oscars, Countdown to Zero, Rebirth and Davis Guggenheim’s He Named Me Malala.

Bob Richman began his film career working with vérité pioneers Albert and David Maysles, quickly transitioning from production assistant to camera assistant then operator. Finally he made the leap to director of photography on the Maysles’ Umbrellas, which chronicled artist Christo’s installation of three thousand umbrellas north of Los Angeles and Tokyo. Today, Richman is an Emmy-nominated and Sundance award-winning cinematographer on almost a hundred documentaries including: Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman, Nathaniel Kahn’s My Architect, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s HBO films Paradise Lost 1, 2 & 3 and Metallica: Some Kinda Monster, RJ Cutler’s The September Issue, Oprah’s Master Class and Sundance Channel’s Iconoclasts.

Jeff Beal is a composer with a genre-defying musical fluidity. His works have been performed by symphony orchestras and chorales around the world, while his film and television scores have been singled out with critical acclaim earning him five Emmys and 16 nominations. Beal’s dark operatic and richly orchestrated score for the Netflix series House of Cards recently earned him an Emmy for best series composition. Documentary scores include Queen of Versailles and Blackfish. Beal collaborated with director Jessica Yu on several critically acclaimed documentaries, including In the Realms of the Unreal,Protagonist, Last Call at the Oasis, and ForEveryone.net. His latest feature documentary work includes Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Jon Dunham’s Boston about the 2013 Boston Marathon, and The Putin Interviews, directed by Oliver Stone.

Judy Aley is an archival researcher and producer for documentary and feature films. She likes looking for things. Credits include the Showtime series on climate change, Years of Living Dangerously, Shola Lynch’s Free Angela & All Political Prisoners, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story and Sicko, Amir Bar Lev’s The Tillman Story, along with many projects with Spike Lee including When the Levees Broke.

Eddie O’Connor is a sound recordist with more than 20 years of experience in the field. A regular collaborator with Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. O’Connor has also worked with notable directors such as Davis Guggenheim, Robby Kenner and Oren Jacoby, as well as with Nathaniel Kahn’s Academy Award-nominated films My Architect (2003) and Two Hands (2006). Other film credits include Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, An Inconvenient Truth, Crazy Love, Food Inc., Waiting for Superman, Made In America and Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru.

Jessica Laudicina’s work in post-production for the last 17 years has been multifaceted. Embracing both the technological and creative aspects of post, she has experience in editing, online editing and assisting, as well as six years as a Senior Technician at PostWorks, NY. Some of her credits include editor on daytime Emmy-winning Discovery Channel series Cash Cab, online editor at ABC News on 20/20 and What Would You Do? and on Zero Point Zero Productions’ Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations, and assistant editor on Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next and Branden Kramer’s psychological thriller Ratter.

HOT & SUNNY PRODUCTIONS, LLC Hot & Sunny Productions LLC was formed in 2014 by Jennifer Blei Stockman and Debi Wisch to develop content about the art world for television, film and print. The principals are both passionate about the company’s mission to deliver intimate and immersive explorations of this world so that audiences of all ages and socio economic levels can understand why and how art matters. They are also hoping that their work serves as a platform to promote better access to and awareness of the arts at universities, museums and smaller communities. With this shared commitment, they joined forces and pooled more than 50 years of combined experience in art, business, marketing and the not-for-profit world. On this production, Hot & Sunny provided full access to the art world and its various players from artists, gallerists, collectors, art historians and auctioneers and helped to shape the complex and layered stories within the film. They also developed and will continue to oversee the implementation of sponsorships in conjunction with the film that will expand the audience for the film and also create revenue streams to demonstrate how documentary films can be both powerful tools of communication and viable business opportunities. Their other Producing credits include Love, Cecil, a film by Lisa Immordino Vreeland about Cecil Beaton that premiered at the 2017 Telluride Film Festival. Hot & Sunny currently has productions in development about the challenges faced by female artists and another about emerging artists, as well as a book project.

ANTHOS MEDIA, LLCAnthos Media LLC has been producing documentary feature films since 2007. The company was co-founded by Carla Solomon and she is currently the company’s sole principal. Anthos’ producing credits include Particle Fever (producer); The New Public (executive producer); Colliding Dreams (in association with) Thank You For Your Service (impact producer); and Letters from Baghdad (consulting producer) about Gertrude Bell—the early 20th century British spy, explorer and political powerhouse who drew the boundaries of today’s Iraq. In addition to producing films to engage broadest audiences, a key dimension of the Anthos mission is to raise curiosity and awareness, broaden public discourse and stimulate other forms of social impact. As a film, The Price of Everything touches on the challenges today’s artists face in finding ways to achieve creative goals and sustain themselves in the face of today’s art market pressures and temptations. Anthos has forged a primary outreach and funding partnership with the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and created a social outreach plan designed to increase awareness of and access to an extensive set of tools helping artists to thrive. A screening/dialogue program for MFA programs and working artist organizations is the second component of the outreach plan. With this plan in place and the support of Tremaine and other lead foundations, The Price of Everything has the opportunity to create an enduring impact on artists and those who work with them—increasing awareness, dialogue, and access to resources supporting the development of independent professional pathways towards creative goals. Current Anthos projects include participation in Creative Chaos’ Post-Truth (in production), about the birth of the “fake news” phenomenon, and a film about the college mental health crisis.